{"id":812,"date":"2010-09-06T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=812"},"modified":"2010-09-06T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:12:31","slug":"105-mph-number-plate-for-chapman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/105-mph-number-plate-for-chapman\/","title":{"rendered":"105 MPH Number Plate for Chapman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>In addition to being the fastest thrower in all of the land, Cincinnati Reds left-hander Aroldis Chapman appears to be a law-abiding resident alien of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>To  wit, Chapman reportedly is trying to update his automobile license  plates now that he has moved from Class AAA Louisville \u2014 in Kentucky, o&#8217;  course \u2014 to big-league Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/number-plate-105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-813\" title=\"number-plate-105\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/number-plate-105-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Changing states isn&#8217;t the  only reason Chapman might want to keep up to date; His cars have vanity  plates that indicate how fast he goes \u2014 from the mound to the plate,  that is.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman&#8217;s Lamborghini plate reads &#8220;MPH102&#8221;; His Mercedes: &#8220;101 MPH.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As we learned over the past week or so, that&#8217;s several miles per hour ago for Chapman. <a name=\"remaining-content\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He hit 105 mph in a minor league game before being promoted. He threw 102 in his major league debut and reached 103.9 mph in his second appearance. (We round up in America.)<\/p>\n<p>Chapman, apparently, refuses to drive in expired plates.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I just texted his adviser,&#8221; Louisville trainer Tomas Vera said. &#8220;He&#8217;s going to see if he can get 104MPH and 105MPH.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> why Chapman checks himself out on the scoreboard to see how hard he&#8217;s throwing. He digs the speed, baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to being the fastest thrower in all of the land, Cincinnati Reds left-hander Aroldis Chapman appears to be a law-abiding resident alien of the United States. To wit, Chapman reportedly is trying to update his automobile license plates<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/105-mph-number-plate-for-chapman\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}